JohnFB said:
@ 0345L and it is absolutely pouring right now and 80-100% chance of percipitation all-day ........ betcha they don't leave today.
Betcha they do. In fact, HURON 41 flight left around 0530 from Westover - as did their KC-10 tanker CAFE 91 from wherever he was RON-ed.
There was another Coronet mission heading east across the pond in the second half of the 0800 hour. Tankers were a KC-10A (86-0027 from McGuire) and a KC-135R (58-0019 from McConnell) as BLUE 41 and 42. It should have been an F-16 flight moving as RETRO 91. They were over Nantucket around 0840. BLUE 42, the KC-135, did his refueling and then turned around heading for home. He came through here at 0922.
In spite of the rain and low ceilings, SCARY, WILD and ANGRY flights of DC-ANG F-16s are up. The flights are on their way home early in the 1000 hour. Interflight freqs are 139.15, 143.6 and 143.15 respectively. All three are two-ship flights.
1011: WILD w/TRACON for radar trail recovery...heading for Andrews runway 1R...270.275 (Ceiling at 1800 feet currently)
1012: WILD flight to ADW Tower for landing 1R...349.0
1017: BANGER 21/22 flight of NJ-ANG F-16s from Atlantic City also working...interflight...138.875 (And this no doubt means there's a DEVIL 11 flight on 138.425 interflight but I haven't heard them yet)
1020: SCARY flight w/TRACON for approach to Andrews....270.275
1025: SCARY flight over to ADW Tower for radar trail recovery on runway 1R...349.0
1030: SNIPER 21 flight of Langley F-22As with Giant Killer....233.7 (W-72 freq)
1030: One of the NJ-ANG flights calling themselves COSMIC 41 and 42 is working 138.2, the HUNTRESS freq....calling United 231 Heavy...says they have unruly passengers and they've tried to breach the cockpit. The air marshall on board calmed everything down. (This appears to be practice)
1034: COSMIC flight calling DARKSTAR but it's simulated which should prove the above is practice only....138.2 (I feel sure it's the BANGER flight that turned into COSMIC once they went on alert for the simulated intercept of the United Airlines flight and changed to NORAD control on this freq)
1034: ANGRY flight w/TRACON...270.275
1035: TRITON 11 flight of Langley F-22s with GK...233.7
1038: ANGRY flight w/ADW Tower for landing...349.0
1040: WOLF 31 (F-22A Langley) to Giant Killer...asks if there's anything going on in W-386 "or is the test flight still going on?"....then says they're proceeding to W-72...249.8
1041: WOLF 31 flight to GK to say they're heading for area 1C (in W-72)....checks in at FL 230...233.7
1048: There's a ROCCO 61 KC-135E from the 108th ARW at McGuire working out in W-107. Mentions that he's on the 124/67 radial from Atlantic City and that he's going to try the 288.0 freq again...he's talking with Giant Killer on the usual W-107 freq...255.0
1051: ROCCO 61 calling BANGER 21 on AR freq...288.0 (He makes contact but I can't hear the fighters, just ROCCO)
1052: ROCCO 61 asking BANGER to confirm they're on the 097/80 radial from Atlantic City...288.0
1052: VENUS 26 (C-20B, 86-0206, 99th AS Andrews) calling Griffin Command...x2, no joy...then contact to say they're on a local flight and will terminate early due to weather...looking for a parking spot...378.1
1055: EVAC 60412 (C-130H, 86-0412, 758th AS Pittsburgh) with TRACON climbing out of Andrews...missed freq - twice!...got it...118.95
1055: ROCCO 61 now with the DEVIL 11 flight also out in W-107...288.0
1059: VENUS 26 asking Griffin Command to confirm a crew bus will be there to meet them at 1115...378.1
1100: VENUS 26 with ADW Tower....6 miles out, TACAN for full stop on runway 1L...gear down...118.4
1100: Missed callsign - possibly SUMMIT 25...(C-130H, 96-7325, 731st AS Peterson) climbing out from Andrews....TRACON
1104: ROCCO 61 says he's going to the northern part of the area and do a couple of turns...altitude 10,000 feet (no wonder it's difficult hearing them!)...one of the DEVIL flight just finished taking 4,000 pounds of fuel...288.0
1107: Langley SOF freq active with F-22A...383.2 (This freq has remained constant in spite of so many others clearing out of this LMR freq range.)
1110: ROCCO 61 now trying to work with Giant Killer on VHF....135.725
1110: SNIPER 21 flight tells Giant Killer they have no contact w/Washington Center...233.7
1113: ROCCO 61 to GK to clear out of W-107 but he's too weak to copy details of flight route...255.0
1111: SNIPER 21 then shows up with ZDC-Valley and checks in at FL 210....317.7
1115: Believe it's the SNIPER 21 flight with Norfolk TRACON saying he's going to have to divert toward Seymour (Johnson) and asks for vectors toward there...370.925
1117: Langley interflight freq active...257.075
And then it got quiet.
1131: TRITON 11 flight (F-22A Langley) working ZDC-Norfolk...cleared to FL 240...327.8
1133: TRITON 11 requesting direct to Seymour Johnson...wants to pick up IFR...says weather prohibits landing at Langley...cleared on a heading of 310 for Seymour Johnson...IDs as a flight of two...327.8
1135: Langley interflight active...233.525 (Think this is the TRITON flight)
1135: REACH 3125 (C-17A, 03-3125, 305th AMW McGuire) overhead the area at FL220....then cleared to FL 260 where he is as he flies out of range...ZDC VHF
1137: YODA 41 flight (F-22A Langley) requesting to RTB w/Giant Killer...233.7 (Guess they're all working down in W-72 today instead of W-386)
And it looks like all the Langley F-22A flights from W-72 are going to Seymour.
1148: WILDCAT 51 with Willow Grove (possibly...this is also an Oceana freq and that's who I think it is based on subsequent traffic) asking for a handoff to Washington Center...266.8
1150: WILDCAT 41 flight with ZDC-Cofield...323.0 (also mentions a WILDCAT 51 flight)
The "Wildcats" are F/A-18s from VFA-131 at NAS Oceana.
1154: WOLF 31 flight (F-22A Langley) checking in with ZDC-Franklin...290.425
1155: One of the WILDCAT flights is now with ZDC-New Bern...272.75
Done for now.
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JohnFB said:
1245Z : 11175.0khz RCH 5981 wkg/Lajes. Rqst WX for TXKF [Bermuda Intl] for 1630Z.
also two P/P .... one I couldn't heard, the other DSN 460-7155 [Moody AFB?]. So possibly a C-130 ...
John, my DSN list shows DSN 460 as Jacksonville when the next number is a 7. It's Moody for anything else....except when in Europe - and then it's for Nuernberg. And your guy was working Lajes, so it might very well have been to Nuernberg. However, when we look at the REACH 5981 callsign, that fits for 65-0981, an HC-130P from the 71st RQS at -- Moody. The circle is squared.
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JohnFB said:
Question: do you folks down south consider 315.900 as a generic 2ndry AR frq, or do you associate it with a specific AARA?
I heard OPEC 38 use it Wed nite while trying to coordinate with PACK 22 for AR204. He didn't stay on it long. I only spotted it because I have it plugged into one of my "what-the-heck-is-this-frq-used for?" banks.
I've had that freq programmed forever and think I've heard it no more than once or twice over the years. It's listed as primary for AR505 E/W (not in our neighborhood) and I saw it listed one time by someone claiming it was used during a Coronet mission but it's not on the lastest published Coronet AR freq list. I have no other information for it.
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1250: Popping in long enough to log
RAZZ 07 who is working with ZDC-Sea Isle on 281.45 and heading to WARNN (in NJ), then cleared to Snow Hill so he's heading south. I have no ID for that callsign that looks valid
1255: And, while here, VENUS 30 (C-40C, 01-0040, 1st AS Andrews) reports airborne at 1755Z....378.1 (This is the only VENUS aircraft that doesn't build his suffix from the tail number the way all the other VENUS aircraft do.
1258: RAZZ 07 handed off to ZDC-Salisbury and checks in at FL 190...257.7 (No joy here so goes back to 281.45 and is sent right back to 257.7, presumably after the controller wakes up the Salsibury desk operator. RAZZ 07 makes contact this time and repeats he's at FL 190.)
1301: RAZZ 07 asks for lower altitude because he's starting to get icing...is cleared down to 8000 feet...257.7
1302: RAZZ 07 cleared direct Salisbury, direct Patuxent...257.7
1306: RAZZ 07 handed off to Pax Approach freq 127.95 but asks for UHF and gets 314.0 where he checks in passing 11,000 for 8,000...asks for RNAV and runway 32 full stop...cleared down to 2,500 feet...314.0
1310: RAZZ 07 vectored to heading 240...314.0
Okay....I've got an ID on RAZZ 07. It's an E-6B, 164388 from VQ-4. I should have known although the E-6s generally prefer to work VHF when with ARTCC. Occasionally, I see one that likes UHF for whatever reason - and this was one of them.
Gone again.
